You gotta hand it to Blizzard for having incredible taste. Taking a page from the Warcraft coffers, the team comissioned a 12-foot Orc statue from WETA, the special FX gurus behind the Lord of the Rings series of movies. Originally, the statue was shrunk down and given to employees as a gift but now all can bask in the Orc’s ...
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Pentagon Hack Attack
Duck for cover! The Pentagon has been the victim of a cyber attack! The weapon in question is a hybrid computer worm rapidly spreading throughout the Pentagon’s thousands of interconnected defense computer networks. No worries, though. The Department of Defense has taken steps to slowing the worm’s advancement by quarantining networks and systems until its removal. Though the entry point ...
Read More »Afternoon Linkage for November 13th, 2008
Q: What is the difference between a child and a bag of cocaine? A: Eric Clapton wouldn’t let a bag of cocaine fall out a window. Saturn gets its own Northern Lights Nutty Peanut Butter Caramel Bars About fucking time I want to iBoogie Obama is a Mac guy Yeah, right Boner party! BRABUS tunes a Tesla Roadster!!! And oh ...
Read More »Bot Devs Get Ganked By Blizzard
Sometime in March, Blizzard filed a class action lawsuit against Michael Donnelly, the creator of the MMO Glider program, which performs key tasks in the game automatically, such as fighting and looting. Well, Blizzard “pwned” the shit out of the software bot’s creator, claiming it infringes the company’s copyright and potentially damages the game. Donnelly says his tool does not ...
Read More »Rumor: Dell E Mini Notebook For $299 In August
We’ve all seen Dell’s E mini notebook that’s piss small with an 8.9-inch screen but details haven’t emerged aside from specs – until today. Rumor has it that the Dell E is going to ship sometime in August for – wait for it – an astonishing $299. At that price, you’d expect a terrible system but you’ll find decent specs ...
Read More »10 Video Game Sequels That Surpass Their Predecessor
Hey, not all sequels suck! Forget about Speed 2: Cruise Control, that movie was garbage. We’ve grouped together a few sequels of well known video game titles that prove that the game industry isn’t disintegrating year after year. Hit the jump to catch the nostalgia:
Read More »Afternoon Linkage for July 1st, 2008
A new month, a new batch of links. There’s enough to go around for all, though we might be out of rolls. Japan’s cigarette vending machine gets beat by a photo A breathtaking Hobbit House Tesla announced a new electric car for $60K Having a bad day? This letter opener will make you smile Analog Rights Management (ARM) LEGO Wall-E ...
Read More »Two Fresh WoW Lich King Screenshots
Blizzard has added two new screenshots to their collection for the WoW expansion, Wrath Of The Lich King. If you ask me, these new shots don’t look too different from many locations already available on the game, but it’s always nice to see new material and landscapes, regardless of repetition. These new screenshots come only a few days after more ...
Read More »The Social Networking Geogrpahical Map finds you a home
If I were to live in the world of social communities, I would reside on the border of Last.fm and Flickr, with a summer home in WoW. This geographical depiction of the most popular of social networks is a fun and playful ode to Web 2.0. The “Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest”, as it is titled, ...
Read More »Create your own Apple Rumor!
In lieu of the recent plethora of Apple and Mac related rumors, here’s a cool little web rumor mill. We spotted this really funny rumor generator while sifting through the Internet plankton. The Apple Rumor Generator takes a series of Apple derived words, and generates a rumor for the occasion. Here are some of the rumors we’ve created: A confirmed ...
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